Safety attachment for pocketbooks



' F. CUCINOTTA.

SAFETY ATTACHMENT FOR POCKETBOOKS.

APPLICATION FILED AUG.27. T920.

- 1,380,778. PatentedJune7,1921.

Tia-1. -126 Inventor:

FRANK CUOINOTTA, OF NEW YORK, N. Y.

SAFETY ATTACHMENT FOR POCKETBOOKS.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented June 7, 1221.

Application filed August 27, 1920. Serial No. 406,396.

T 0 all whom it may concern .1

Be it known that I, FRANK CUoINo'r'rA, a subject of the King of Italy,residing at New York, in the county and State of New York, have inventedcertain new and useful Improvements in Safety Attachments forPocketbooks, of which the following is a full, clear, and exactspecification.

This invention relates to pocketbooks or purses, and has for its objectto provide improved means for fastening the same in closed position andattaching them to the clothing of the owners so that it will beimpossible for said pocketbooks or purses to be stolen or the contentsthereof removed without the knowledge of the owners.

The invention will be first hereinafter described in connection with theaccompanying drawings, which constitute part of this specification, andthen more specifically defined in the claims at the end of thedescription.

In the accompanying drawings, wherein similar reference characters, areused to designate corresponding parts throughout the several viewsFigure 1 is a side View of the upper portion of a pair of trousersshowing a pocketbook or purse in the pocket thereof and fastened to oneof the waist-band buttons by means of the flexible member whichconstitutes part of this invention.

Fig, 2 is a sectional view of a pocketbook or purse of a preferredconstruction, showing the fastening means applied thereto and the chainconnected to the button on the clothing, and

Fig. 3 is a detailed perspective View of the pocketbook or purse alone,the flap at one end being shown closed and that at the other end open.

Referring first to Fig. 3, the pocketbook or purse 1 may be made ofleatheror other suitable material, and is preferably made in tubularform with its body portion divided into opposite end sections 2 and 3 bya transverse line of stitching & or other suitable means. The twosections or compartments 2 and 3 of the pocketbook or purse have flaps 5adapted to fold over their respective mouths, and each flap has aperforation 6 formed therein and adapted to register with perforations 7through the mouths of said compartments when said flaps are folded overto close said mouths.

When the flaps are in closed position and the pocketbook or purse isfolded along the line of stitching at, as shown in Fig. 2, the flaps arepresented face to face where they cannotbe tampered with when thefastening means is applied. Said fastening means consists of a button 8,or its equivalent, having a shank 9 to extend through the perforations 6and 7 in the flaps and mouths of the compartments of the pocketbook orpurse. The free end of saidshank has a loop 10 formed therein throughwhich a chain 11, or other suitable flexible member may be passed asshown in Fig. 2. When the chain is passed through said loop 10, itisevident that the fastening device or button cannot be withdrawn fromthe purse, and that the latter cannot, therefore, be opened and have itscontents removed until the chain is first withdrawn from the loop.

One end of the chain 11 is permanently at tached by means of a ring 12to a clasp 13 adapted to be detachably fastened over a button 15 on thetrousers 16 or otherwise attached to the clothing of the owner of thepurse. The other end of the chain has an open link 14 adapted to bedetachably fastened to the ring 12, as shown in Fig. 2, so that saidchain cannot be disengaged from the button shank which secures the pursein closed position without the knowledge of the owner.

While a special form of pocketbook or purse, having the two compartmentsand facing flaps, is shown herein as the preferred form to be used withthe safety attachment, it will be understood that said safetyattachment, including the button, shank, loop, chain and means forattaching said chain to the clothing, may be used with any other form ofpocketbook or purse having perforations for the button.

Having thus described my invention, what passage of the shank of the Iclaim as new and desire to secure by Letters Patent of the United Statesis 1. The combination with a pocketbook having a flap to cover its mouthand perforations in said mouth and flap to register with one anotherwhen the flap is closed, of a button having a shank to extend throughsaid perforations in the mouth and flap, a loop on the free end of saidshank of the button, a chain to be passed loosely throu h said loop forfastening the mouth of tie pocketbook closed, and means for fasteningboth ends of the chain to the clothing.

2. The combination With a pocketbook having mouths at opposite ends eachwith perforations therethrough, said pocketbook being capable of beingfolded to bring its mouths together, of a detachable fastening devicehaving a shank to be passed through the perforations in the two mouthswhen brought together, a loop on the free end of the shank, a flexiblemember to be passed through said loop for fastening the mouths of thepocketbook closed, and means for attaching said flexible member to theclothing.

3. The combination with a pocketbook having months at opposite ends andflaps to cover said mouths, the mouths and flaps havneeome ingregistering perforations and the flaps facing each other When thepocketbook is folded to bring its mouths together, of a detachablefastening device having a shank to be passed through the perforations inthe mouths and flaps When brought together, a loop on the free end ofthe shank, a flexible member to be passed through said loop forfastening the mouths of the pocketbook closed, and means for attachingsaid flexible member to the clothing. v

In'testimony whereof I have signed my name to this specification.

FRANK onomorra.

